Clothes wringer



T. AND P. STRAKA.

CLOTHES WBINGER.

APPLICATI ON FILE D MAY7| 1920.

Patented Jun 6, 1922.1.

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ARELICATIQN FILED MAY 7. I920.

Patented J 11110 6, 1922..

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tlldlfhltt TONY STRAKA AND PAUL STRAKA, OF, FAIRCI-IANCE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTHES WRINGER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 6, 1922.

Application filed May 7, 1920. Serial No. 379,552.

To aZZ whom it" may concern.

Be it known that TONY STRAKA and PAUL STRAKA, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Fairchance in the county of Fayette and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes VVringers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a combined wringer and washer which is adapted to be used in the ordinary manner so far as the washboard feature is concerned and to be disposed as in the usual practice in, the tub containing the water and fabrics to be cleansed and which without resorting to other mechanism or attach ments can be utilized from time to time to wring the clothes after the rubbing opera tion has been completed, the arrangement of parts being such as to provide for the return of the water to the tub and with these objects in view, the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings wherein Figure 1 is a front view of the apparatus.

Figure 2 is a side view of the same.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view.

Figure 4 is a rear view partly broken away.

The device consists essentially of a frame having the side bars 10 connected by suitable cross bars 11 and 12 below thelatter of which the side bars will extend to form supporting legs or rests 13; a rubbing element 14% of corrugated material or like material disposed between said cross bars, wringing rollers 15 and 16 disposed in cooperative relation above the rubbing element, with an interposed soap rest or shelf 17, and a deflector 18 of sheet metal or the like disposed to extend above and in rear of the wringer rolls and downward to a point below the upper edge of the rubbing element so as to insure the return of any water extracted from the clothes in the operation of wringing to a position to enter the tub in which the apparatus is disposed.

In the construction illustrated the rubbing element is provided with a backing board 19 secured to the cross bars 11 and 12, and an interposed filler board or block 20 is arranged between the backing board and the rear surface of the rubbing element to give stability and solidity to the latter to guard against bending or deflecting the same by pressure, and said backing board preferably extends above the upper edge ofthe upper cross bar 11 and also above the plane of the soap rest or shelf 17 to form a guard 21 which is preferably perforated as shown at 22 to permit water finding its way to the surface thereof to escape into the passage 23 between the plane of the backing board and the deflector l8 and return to the tub or receptacle in which the device is located. Also disposed in a downwardly and forwardly inclined position above the guard 21 is chute 9A of which the upper edge is located adjacent to the rollers and slightly in rear of the line of contact of said rollers so as to catch the bulk of the water extracted from the fabrics being wrung and conduct it to a plane in advance of the guard 21. Also above the wringing rollers there may be as shown a shield 25 extending upward from the plane of the rollers to a point near the over hanging portion of the deflector 18.

The spindles 26 and 27 of the rolls are providedwith intermeshing gears 28 to secure co-operative movement of the rolls in opposite directions and attached to one of said spindles is an operating crank arm 29. It will. be obvious that operations of the scrubbing or rubbing the clothesand wringing the same may be conducted in repeated succession by the use of the single apparatus provided under such conditions as to minimize the efforts of the operator and the location of the wringing rollers above the upper edge of the rubbing surface simplifies the movement of the operator in that after having completed the rubbing operation and rinsing the articles which have been rubbed as by dipping the same successively into the water in the tub or receptacle it is merely -a continuation of the same motion to bring the upper end of such article into position for engagement by the wringing rollers'the front supports of the chute 24 forming a guide to direct the fabric into such engaging relation. Also the separation of the upper edge of the shield 25 from the adjacent portion of the curved deflector 18 facilitates the grasping of the upper edge of the fabric after it has been passed through the wringclinecl "feed chute below said rolls, a vertical.

shield above the rear roll, and a deflector spaced from the rear of the mlls chute and 10 shield.

In testlmony whereof they allix their 019;-

nature-s.

TONY STRAKA. PAUL STRAKA. 

